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The first complete English translation of the second-century B.C. version of the Chinese classic includes five long-lost commentaries with significant remarks by Confucius reassessing his earlier recorded negative views on the I Ching.

n two thousand years, the oracular, enigmatic pronouncements of the I Ching (Classic of Changes) have intrigued and inspired readers. In the West, scholars have long regarded the volume as one of the seminal texts of Chinese culture, comparable to the Bible or the Upanishads, and readers everywhere have turned to the hexagrams, line statements, and commentaries for guidance on every imaginable life situation.



Given the enduring importance of this work, it was a momentous event when a significantly different I Ching text was unearthed in Mawangdui, China, in 1973--the first new manuscript of the work to appear in two thousand years. Now translated into English for the first time by one of West's leading scholars of the I Ching, the Mawangdui text brings welcome clarity, accessibility, and novelty to this beloved classic.



Like the received version, the Mawangdui I Ching and its commentaries begin with a central core of sixty-four hexagrams, but in a